Knitting machinery



H. PETERS KNITTING MACHINERY 1 Filed April 23, 193i June 12, 1934. v1,962,614

INVENTOR Hen/y Pe fers BY t i E .l

A ATTORNEY Patented June 12, 1934 KNITTING MACHINERY Henry Peters,Clifton, N. J., assgnor to Universal Patentsllolding Co., Weehawken, N.J., a corporation of New Jersey Application April 23, 1931, Serial No.532,169

4 Claims.

The invention relates to improvements in fiat knitting machinery andmore particularly to means for making lace designs with a picot bar onall parts of the stocking blank, from one side 5 to the other, in thewelt, after the welt or on any part of the blank; in addition means areeinbodied in the same machine for making net mesh designs with net meshbars, the same being made from one side to the other of the blank or onany part of the blank. The feature of the invention is that both theaforesaid lace designs andnet mesh designs may be made on the blank fora full fashioned hose during the knitting of the hose and withoutremoving the hose from the machine.

In accordance with present practice, great care must be exercised and alarge amount of time must be consumed in setting up a knitting machinefor the formation of lace designs.

same holds true for setting up the machine for net mesh designs. It isoften desirable in the manufacture of fancy hose to have a lace designon parts of the hose and to have a net mesh design on other parts. Theonly possible way to do this'with the present machines is to transferthe partially completed blank from one machine to another. As thisoperation might' have to be performed a number of times during themanufacture of'a single blank it would make the cost of the completedstocking prohibitive.

' The principal object of the present invention is to provide a simplemethod whereby either lace designs or net mesh designs may be formed onany desired part of the stocking without removing the blank from themachine. In this way, a very fancy and attractive stocking may be madein an elcient and economical manner.

The invention will be further described in the following specificationand illustrated in the 4o drawing accompanying same and forming a partthereof. A

Referring to said drawing:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary front elevatoni' Figure 2 is an end view, theshafts lbeing in sec` '45 tion; and

Figure 3 is a Vfragmentary view of a stocking blank inwhich parts of thedesign are more or less ditically illustrated.

It is to be understood the invention is applicable to any standard typeof at knitting machine, either. a legger or a footer, or a unit machinein which the complete blank is knit.

The reference numeral 5 designates thel lace bar which is carried bvsuitable arms 6 secured to the shaft '1. The shaft'l is movablelongitudi- 'The nally by any conventional form of lace-work operatingmechanism.- It is also mounted in the usual manner so that it may beoscllated.

The lace bar carries lace points of picot points 8. 'Ihe points 8operate Vin the usual manner; 60 that is, in` forming a design theytransfer stitches from some of the main frame needles 9 to adjacentneedles to give the lace eiect. The form of design to be made determinesthe positioning of the points.\ It is understood the frame needles 9 areof the known spring beard type mountedin the needle bar 10 in aconventional manner.

Shafts 11 and 12 through the medium of arms 13---13 and 14-14 carry netmesh b'ars l5 and 16. The net mesh bar 15 carries lace or'picot 70points 17 and is of suilcient width so as to extend substantially fromselvage to selvage of the stocking web or blank. The points 17 will bear ranged on the net mesh bar in accordance with the net. mesh designbeing made.

The net mesh bar 16 carries points 18 and the bar is considerablyshorter than the bar 15. The net mesh bar 16 isused between the highheel and heel reinforcement and on the instep portion in the foot of theblank.

The shafts 11 and 12 are movable longitudinally by the lace workoperating mechanism and may be oscillated in the usual manner to engagethe frame needles 9.

In Figure 3 the reference numeral 20 desig- 85 nates the upper part ofthe stocking blank or web, the welt being indicated at 21. The lacedesign 22 or any other design which extends across the blank is madewith the lace points 8 after the welt, or in the welt or on any other 99part of the stocking. The net mesh design is indicated at 23 and thisdesign or any other vform of the net mesh design may be formed on anypart of the stocking by the means heretofor described.

It is to be understood that the lace bar 5 and the net mesh bars 15 and16 are all caused to function by the lace work operating mechanism.Inasmuch as mechanisms for moving a point bar are well known in the artfor producing both narrowing and lace work effects, a description ofthis mechanism is believed unnecessary, and is therefore omitted.

Such changes as would occur to one skilled in the art are to beconsidered as coming within the scope of the appended claims.

1. A flat full-fashioned knitting machine hav ing in combination with avseries of needles and their cooperating knitting elements, a transfer 2point bar having points spaced at intervals lengthwise of the needleseries, a second transfer point bar having points spaced at intervalslengthwise of a portion of the needle series covered by saidfirst-mentioned bar, parallel lengthwise movable shafts having a fixedspaced relationship to each other on eachof which one of said transferpoint bars is mounted to swing into and out of operative position, saidbars and shafts being arranged to permit the movement of said barsalternatively into operative position when the other of said barsoccupies a raised inoperative position.

2. A at full-fashioned knitting machine having in combination with aseries of needles and their cooperating knitting elements, a lace pointbar having points spaced at intervals substantially the full width ofthe fabric, a longitudinally movable shaft on which said bar ispivotally supported to move into and out of operative position, a netmesh bar having points spaced at intervals the width of a portion of thefabric, and a separate lengthwise movable shaft located in fixed spacedrelationship to said first bar and on which said net mesh bar issupported to swing into and out of operative postion, said shafts andbars being arranged to permit the unobstructed movement of either ofsaid bars about its supporting shaft into operating position when theother of said bars occupies a raised inoperative position.

3. A flat full-fashioned knitting machine having in combination with aseries of needles and their cooperating knitting elements, a transferpoint bar having points spaced at frequent intervals lengthwise of theneedle series, a longitudinally movable shaft on which said bar issupported to swing into and out of operative position, a secondlengthwise movable shaft located in fixed spaced relationship to andabove said first-mentioned shaft, and a second transfer point bar havingpoints spaced at frequent intervals over substantially the same portionof the needle series, and supporting arms for said latter bar mounted onsaid second-mentioned shaft to permit the unobstructed movement of saidsecond bar about said shaft into operative position with saidfirst-mentioned bar in its raised inoperative position.

4. A flat full-fashioned knitting machine having in combination with aseries of needles and their cooperating knitting elements, threeparallel endwise movable shafts mounted in xed spaced relationship toeach other at varying distances from the needle series, a transfer pointbar having points spaced at intervals the width of a portion of theneedle series and mounted on the shaft nearest said needle series toswing into and out of operative position, a second transfer point barhaving points spaced at intervals lengthwise of the needle series andincluding the portion covered by said first-mentioned bar and providedwith supporting arms secured to the intermediate shaft to permit anunobstructed swinging movement of the bar into operative position for araised inoperative position of said first-mentioned bar, and a thirdtransfer point bar having points spaced at intervals substantially thefull widthofthe needle series and provided with supporting arms mountedon said third furthest removed shaft arranged to permit an unobstructedswinging movement of said bar into operative position for a raisedinoperative position of both said first and second bars.

'HENRY PETERS.

